Stacksmith #1: Your Guide to Web3
EthGlobal Guides, 8x faster transactions and a Lens Developer Quickstart
Hello You Beautiful Builders!
I’m so glad you’re here. Each week I’ll be sharing the latest news, tools & utilities, and learning resources for Web3 developers. Whatever your blockchain of choice is, you’ll find something cool and interesting to help you level up.
I’m excited to launch this new developer newsletter and I look forward to your feedback.
Thanks!
This Week’s Top News
🗺️ EthGlobal Guides
One of the best things about the EthGlobal Online Hackathons is the learning resources and tutorials. Now EthGlobal is launching Guides: a new kind of Web3 learning experience. Each guide covers everything you need to know to get started with popular protocols including Optimism, Livepeer, Metamask, Filecoin, ENS, Push Protocol, Superfluid, and IPFS with a short quiz to reinforce what you've learned.
🚀 8x Faster Transactions
Tenderly and Alchemy announced new Node offerings for faster, more reliable transactions.
The Tenderly Web3 Gateway is a Node-as-a-Service (NaaS) offering that allows developers to handle dApp and protocol development from a single place on more than 20 supported networks.
The Web3 Gateway node performs read-heavy workloads up to eight times faster, the Simulation API improves the overall end-user experience by enabling users to preview transaction outcomes, and Web3 Actions allow you to automate your workflow and respond to on-chain and off-chain events in less than a second.
Alchemy Transact is a suite of APIs and tools built to make your blockchain transactions faster, cheaper, and more reliable.
It offers "Reinforced Transactions" broadcasted across geographically distributed nodes, Private Transactions that send transactions without exposing them to the public mempool to prevent MEV frontrunning, and Alchemy Notify for real-time alerts when transactions are mined or dropped from the mempool.
Gas-optimized transactions, simulated transactions, and Gas Oracle are planned for future release.
💰 Magic Eden Creator Monetization Hackathon
Now that Solana NFT Marketplaces have shifted to the 0% royalties. MagicEden is asking developers to find ideas that will allow creators in the Solana NFT space to earn royalties or identify alternative monetization models. Winners will take home a share of a $250k prize pool.
Here's my simple solution: Respect creator royalties as intended.
Creator Monetization Hackathon
📽️ Chainlink ChainDev YouTube Channel
Chaindev is a new Web3 developer-focused channel led by Chainlink Labs Developer Advocates where developers can learn how to use and build smart contracts with cutting-edge tooling from Chainlink and other platforms.
🔎 Lens Protocol Developer Quickstart
Lens Protocol allows developers to build Web3 "DeSo" applications. In this quickstart, you'll build a full-stack app using the Lens API to fetch and render a social media feed, navigate to view an individual profile, and fetch and view the user's posts using Lens Protocol, NextJS, and Tailwind CSS.
From the Twitters
Intro to EVM Development by @crypdoughdoteth
Scaling Blockchain Development by @Folifoxx
Swanky Suite WASM Developers by @Swankywasm
The PLONK ZKProof System by @federicocarrone
Top 3 Web3 Development Courses by @nonstack
Normie's Guide to Rollups by @bentimon
That’s all for this week, see you next week! If you’ve got something cool you think I should share just let me know!